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Democratic Republic of the Congo–France relations

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France primarily imports food and agricultural products from the DRC, whose primary imports from France are pharmaceuticals and mechanical equipment.
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France provides Congo-DRC with food and medical assistance. French food aid has increased since the food crisis of 2008, reaching 17 million
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The DRC receives support from French experts to help it improve its budgetary and administrative performance, in accordance with the
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is the official language of the DRC, and both France and the DRC are full members of the
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France Diplomatie : : Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères
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in 1977 to help Mobutu, whose régime threatened to crumble before rebels of the
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operate in the RDC (notably the Institut français in Kinshasa), as well as the
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France Diplomatie: Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères
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France committed at the end of President Kabila's second to the
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Relations between France and the Democratic Republic of Congo
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and development contract (C2D) between the two countries.
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Foreign relations of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Thomas Deltombe; Manuel Domergue; Jacob Tatsita (2019).
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war. France intervened again the following year in the
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Foreign policy of the Mobutu Sese Seko administration
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Foreign relations of Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Index

Map indicating locations of France and Democratic Republic of the Congo
France
DR Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
France
Organisation internationale de la francophonie
United Nations

adding to it
Roger Trinquier
coup d'etat
Mobutu Sese Seko
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
French Army
Zaïre
Congolese National Liberation Front
Shaba I
Shaba II
Rwandan genocide
Kivu
Operation Turquoise
Rwanda
French
Organisation internationale de la francophonie
Alliances françaises
Instituts français
lycée Français René Descartes de Kinshasa
École Nationale d'Administration.
European Union
United Nations Security Council

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